This year, thanks to yarn donors, we’re sending three to the hospital’s baby blanket project. Many thanks to you and you and you and you. You, too.

I’ve figured out a few things about these winter projects.

1. Start in the spring.

2. It seems stupid, but knit when it’s 90 degrees on the porch.

3. Don’t stop.

Miss Sasha has been making hats on a knitting loom. I have been hmm-hmm-hmm-ing about whether or not I could turn out hats this way, but I’d have to have a place to send them. It must be noted that I am in New Jersey and even toddlers get mouthy when you stroke their hair.

I guess we were all young then.